"This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Sports Social, now on the Sports Social Podcast Network." Want to beat your mates at Fantasy Football this season? Why not join us at Fantasy Football Scout, the home of Fantasy Football? We're one of the leading Fantasy Football sites in the world. We have tons of expert daily content available for everyone, from new players to seasoned experts. Join us today by subscribing to our podcast for free. Search Fantasy Football Scout. Don't let Priyenne win the mini league again. Hello, and welcome to the talking carpet. It's me, Chris Brackett, finished Ipswich-Nill, Liverpool tool. Football's back, a little bit of clean sheet. What is this madness I enjoyed by Ashley, I enjoyed by Kat, and for the sort of the maths apart from his hair. Matt, what's got off? Yeah, we didn't have enough room in the van when we packed up all of our belongings and moved across countries, so the hair had to stay behind. Just didn't quite have enough to make a cut, so... Something made the cut, that's for sure. Me. Maybe you're all weak, folks. Yeah, sadly we know that's true. Anyway. Sorry about that. It's got some idea that I can't. So listen, initial thoughts, Matt, initial thoughts? I mean, it's just good to have the football back. The main thing is that I've been absent all summer, I've missed all the silly season talk, all the shows you guys have been doing, talking about almost no transfer activities, and I haven't really quite missed it. I've missed being here, involved in doing shows and stuff like that, but it was just a countdown until the football came back. So it was lovely to have the boys back, and I think we got a glimpse of what we're in store for with Arnus Lot football. I mean, it was about 90 seconds into the game when there was a loose pass from the back, and it was like, "Oh, shit!" But a little bit of patience, and you see how it turned around in the second half, and I'm excited. I'm really, really excited. I like the way that Lot has us playing. It looks like it fits a lot of our players really quite well. So happy days. I know it's only one match, but you've got to win your first match. So you take the win, and you move on, and hopefully everybody's in a happy move. Yeah, and Kev, that slot is now the first Liverpool managed to win his debut lead game since Grandunas in the mid-90s. So you don't have to. Yeah. I mean, one of the useless bits of, some other useless bits of information that the two happy clappy twats on BT. Today was the same. The same Arnold slot share is the same first-day Liverpool competitive game as Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalplish. So yeah, go and just go and replicate that, and we'll all be good. I'll be delighted. Easy, isn't it? Yeah, it's Lucas. Do you know what? It's a simple game made complicated by idiots like us. Speak for yourself. Speak to a lot of it. Actually, how are you vibing that while you're also putting quotes and words, which is really helpful? Sorry, I'm multitasking. Overall, I'm pleased. If you had talked to me at halftime, it would have been a really different conversation because I was having flashbacks from the end of last season where we would have to do a post-match show on no shots at all. So I am very glad that we stepped into your second half, and I think we saw some tactical changes, which are really exciting. We saw a little bit of coaching from slot, I think, that really made a big change in the second half. So for now, so far, so good. Yeah, the Taliban group was a little bit live. We wanted to do a half-time, but we're all concerned. So let's go through a start level. So it was Ali and Goll, back four of Trent, Kwanser, Van Dyke, and Robbo. And then we had Gravenburch, McAllister, and Dombo was in midfield, and then the attack was Salah, Diaz, Josser. I'm sick of you, Ashley. Any surprises there? Anyone you thought all probably might have started over at the others or pretty much what you expected? I think the only one that I was kind of iffy, or the two I was iffy about was Salah's eye going to start versus Elliott, or was it going to be Robbo or Cinecast? I think he went with experience in both cases. I think they both performed pretty well. I do think that Kwanser getting hooked was probably the most surprising, tactical decision of the entire game, though. OK, OK. Cool. Matt, any surprises for you? Obviously, your boy didn't even get on the pitch. Yeah. I mean, I thought just off of the strength of his performances in the preseason at Harvey Elliott might get the start, but I mean, it would be pretty hard to, especially on his second half performance, say the dominance of his life didn't more than build a role at the 10. Yeah. I mean, I believe it was achieved in the telegram group that said that that shows what Slott thinks of Cinecast the fact that Robertson, you know, off the back of a little bit of a knock comes right back into the starting lineup, but I think that's measuring Cinecast quite correctly, actually. I am not a very large fan of cost to Cinecast, though he did well when he came on the second half. I think the lineup with the exception of, you know, if you played a double pivot of McAllister and Salva Slye with Elliott on, but I don't know if Salva Slye is going to be used in that position. So, yeah, it might be a hard scrap for that number 10 position. OK, OK. Kat, have I surprised you? I'm saying nothing about certain people not playing. But, you know. No, I thought, and it's a horrible thing to have to say, but the side picks itself. It just does. You could tell a mile away from the Seville game what direction he was going to go off. Robertson is obviously first-choice left back. He's had an extra week. He hasn't had the match minutes, but he's had an extra week now training, and he's not going to get match minutes sitting on the bench, so your only option is to play it. The rest of them, I thought, picked itself, and that there in lies a different problem for another day. I'm happy with it, to be honest. I was excited to see how it would work, you know. We saw glimpses of how it can work, and we also saw patches of where its limitations can be. But everything is caviated with, it's a work in progress. It's not a day one, and that's the best it's going to be. I think it's day one that we've seen issues, and we've seen some massive positives. The biggest positive of all, as much as the goals were great and there were some lovely football players, clean sheets. Clean sheets are huge, and the fact that Allison never really had too much to do away from home in the first game of the season, makes me happy as a big in shit, to be honest. So actually, talking about work in progress, you know, one of my predictions this last night came right, is we didn't concede first, and we didn't concede in the first ten minutes. We did go in the first ten minutes, try our best to give it to which are helping hand. In the first minute Van Dyke passed it straight to it was Abigail, you know. I think we could all agree, let's all show us how difficult it is. The first time was just all round sloppy, and slow. Yeah, I, you know, I don't know, I don't know what exactly the root cause of that was. I don't know if it was because Ipswich was bouncing, and their fans were up for it, which they were, or, you know, if it was because of our sluggishness, because of so many players just getting back and not really having a full preseason, but we looked like we were struggling to get out of first gear, I'll put it nicely, and it was a hard watch the first half. Yeah, I think you've got to give them credit, because I thought Wes Burns, who was quite active, okay. We'll come back to it, but himself, Omar Richardson, and Liam Dallap, I thought they did cause us problems, you know, they were, they were tenacious and tackles, they were pacey, you know, and they were backed up really well by the midfield too, and I thought Jake agrees, that sounds about played really well. Yeah, it wasn't surprising that Ipswich gave their man of the match to Greaves at the end of it, he did, he did do quite well. With the exception of some of the players that they brought in, I mean that, I believe this stat was that only 33 Premier League appearances from the entire Ipswich playing roster, and only one start, which was Twanzebe with United a year or two ago, something like that. So, for me at least, it was kind of an unknown proposition, I don't really know a lot about how Ipswich were going to play, I don't even think I watched him once in the championship last season. You know, you hear a lot of talk about Kieran McKenna, you know, especially when he was kind of being touted for that United job, when it was possible that they were going to set 10 HOG and whatnot, they were quite impressive, I thought, for, you know, the first 15 minutes especially, they weren't afraid to come out and bring the game to us. It was kind of what you would expect, newly promoted team at home, first game back in a Premier League and whatever it is, 22 years. You would expect them to have a little bit about them to be up for it, but their press from the front was good, and with us, this being the first game of proper slot ball, it was like, ooh boy, how is this going to go, but yeah, it's, as the game went on, I felt that we just kind of tired them out, like the passing around at the back and drawing them in, you could see that it was building up to something. I know somebody at halftime said that the big angled ball from Virgil DeMoe was on because of how we were just drawing them in, playing the ball around at the back, and you saw that for the second goal. Yeah, I think so, Kav, I mean, do you want to say it though, I did feel the most disappointing to think about the first half, more than that else is, on the ball, it was so slow, it was pedestrian, it was all things we hadn't seen in pre-season, it was more basic cause on the road problems with the giveaway, so it was quite frustrating. I think one thing you could say from the first half, players were having to think about what they were doing, and they were telling it, they were taking an extra touch when they needed to move it much faster. It's all well and good playing through the thirds, but to do that properly you need to move the ball quicker, one, two touch, and move into the space that your mate is leaving behind you. It was simple things, the thing is about Ipswich, right, they've lost 10 games in two years in the league, so they bounced into the podium, they lost six games in total last year, four of the year before that, they're used to winning, they have a mentality about them having just come up, and it's the same with every promotion side. I think they'll struggle, you'll see a thing after about four or five games, once analysts and coaches start working out what they're trying to do and their patterns of play out from the back, they'll get found out, they'll have issues. But having the first two games up for them, it gets Liverpool and Man City, it's probably a blessing in the skies cause there's no expectation on anything. They gave it a massive go on the first half, they poured everything in to trying to press really high up, force us into a mistake, and we worked through it, we got through the first half, but it was clear as day that there had to be changes, be it tactical or personnel or both was what happened, but it was a massive game of two halves because it was night and day of the difference between the two. Yeah, I mean actually it's probably the positive side of it is, I think we all came at half time thinking, I think they'll know, I think Liverpool are quite pleased and they'll know because they haven't actually played very well, and then we see what the manager can do and we saw, can I say warmer up a half time, we all feared it was an injury. The more we're seeing is, unless something comes up next hour or slot, it does feel like Quonsa was a tactical change, or as Kev as they rise, maybe it's getting minutes into someone, but that change and he dropped on the side a bit deeper, just gave us so much more control on the ball. Yeah, I think definitely, I think it was tactical in that regard, and I think it paid off immediately. I hate to see Quonsa getting the hook at half time, I think slot actually has previous for pulling players quite early in games and his tactics aren't being implemented or if they're not working against the opponent, so I don't think that's actually too far fetched for him to be doing that, so it might be something that we see more of it. But yeah, I mean as soon as the second heart half started, it was like the control in the midfield was there immediately, which it wasn't the whole first half, like I was looking at that thinking, I thought the midfield was supposed to be this new kind of center of attention and it felt like we were bypassing it for most of the first half. So to get that coming in on the second half, I think that made a huge difference. Yeah, I mean, I was supposed to be all quokes up, you've got here from Arnie Slott, so we put a, we have many good players, if you cannot find another one, we do not hesitate to do so. We showed him a hard time that if you play one v one all over the pitch, don't play so many short balls, so you know, but this is, you know, he's renowned for being a short ball specialist, but it's a little shorter than adaptability. And I said a hard time, there's no to speak about tactics if you lose so many jewels. So again, that's putting, I'm sorry, Mattie, putting pressure back up a team is, you know, win your battles. It's very old school, but you know what, sometimes the old ways are always the best ways. Yeah, and I think for me, the person that encapsulated that the most, especially in the second half was Ryan Gramberch. I thought the work that he did in the middle of the park that he was dropping to the edge of our box, even inside our box and collecting the ball off of Allison and making a man miss and driving forward and getting 10, 20 yards up the pitch, getting his head up and spraying the ball out left to right, whichever way needed to go. I was, I was really impressed with it because it's obviously the question of who's going to play the six. Are we going to sign a six? Do we have that player in the squad if we're not going to bring somebody in to do it? And obviously, Gramberch got the call in that position today and he's shown that he has the on-ball skills to do what presumably slot wants out of that player. But it was just a matter of having that, that little body swerve or the little faint spin around the corner to get past that player. And I thought it made a huge difference. Like it was, I was really impressed with how, how calm he was on the ball. He really seemed to have his head, you know, on a swivel 360 degree view around him, wasn't getting caught out or anything like that with it. But the other option is sometimes you just pump it long and that was also working as well too. Yeah. I mean, careful before we come to the goals, we did have a slight scare with a correct offside decision, which Duvang is covered with the classic line of why sport is flag up so early. It's also tight, although I do think it's offside and it was. I think if the outside's not given, I think they're given that penalty all day long, aren't they? They are. Look, it was more good forward play than poor defender because it was a release. It would have been a really slight touch on him, but once you got beyond the, once you got beyond Virgil, any slight contact that he was going, he was always going over. Yeah, it was offside and, you know, that's the end of the debate as far as I'm concerned. But there were, for all of the efforts they had in the first half, like they had the header, they had a header from a set piece, Alice smovered, then they had another effort that, you know, he saved. In general, for how bad we were in the first half, we never got caught open. You know, it wasn't the case of we were running around like Heather's chickens. We were fairly organized off the ball that defensively we were okay. It was the option. And he's, slot is all I say, if the option to go along is there, it didn't go. And Mo got in a couple of times and just couldn't get the ball out of his feet and he's full back for the first half really did okay on him, you know, but in general, the only real in talking point in the first half was should it, should it have been down to 10 men? Just to give you an update, I don't know which view you guys had, who I was watching, I'll make it TNT and a quote from Joe Cole, excellent player and all around the end, was, I think the referee got it right, the guy was just a little bit cheeky to which, to be fair, the lady who's a princess went, what isn't that deliberate handball piece drives because yes it is, so it's not cheeky, it's, it's a second yellow, most obvious second yellow thing in your life, but practice cheeky, it's okay, you know, so do you want to say that one? I mean, I, I certainly thought it was deliberate. There was definitely like hand to ball action. I know a few people in the chat were saying, well, maybe the ref didn't see it, but I personally think he saw it and just decided, you know what, it's the first game of the season, we're not going to be giving a red card for that, which for me is a mistake, you know, if you want to set the tone, you want to set the tone, but I think he made a judgment call there and just let it go, which, you know, is annoying and I definitely think he should have gotten a second yellow for it. Well, you know what it's like about, you know, you don't want to spoil the spectacle of football and, you know, we don't really criticize these referees because that'll just be cruel, wouldn't it? I want to criticize them. I mean, to be fair, to be fair, I, I thought, I think this is one of the first times we've had Tim Robinson as the ref, it's just, it's just another Baldi guy, he's a little more male pattern than straight shaped right down to the skin Baldi, but I thought, I thought he was all right. I mean, the handball was just, it was just bad. Like, to me, I know that VAR is not supposed to get involved in yellow card offenses, but if it's a second yellow card, then that makes it a red card, which shouldn't VAR be getting involved in that. It's almost certain towards the end of the last season, we had VAR. I think it's a straight and supposed game plan, isn't it? Yeah. I, so I'll take that. I mean, if that's the level of refereeing that we can expect, if that's going to be, if it's going to be consistent, I know it's not going to be. I would be okay with that because I didn't feel that there was huge swings in what he was blowing up for fouls, like some of the, some of the obstruction and pulling and stuff like that. Those Kwanzaa had a header from one of our corners in the first half that he put just over the bar, but they blew it for a foul. He had both of his hands out, a little shove in the back, this sort of thing you've seen let go for years and years and years. They're going to call that fine. Just call that the little niggly foul is like, I thought there was a ton of fouls, like 20 yards either side of the halfway line, and he was calling, he was calling notes. That's fine. Fine. You just call that. I just, I can't understand it, but yeah, heaven forbid that we have a red card in Ipswich's first came back in the Premier League in 22 years, and they end up on the wrong side of a dropping because narrative blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Exactly, exactly. Let's talk about the positive stuff, the goals, because to be fair, Kev, before justice code, I think we had Diaz and Jota both miss sitters, let's be fair, Diaz's ball, it's a lovely move by the polls, played to Diaz, and he chips it up, he does well to chip it over the bar from that position, does get touched on the key by afterwards, but he's already making the shot and he's not trying to chip it out hard because he's got to keep it going, he's just a poor finish. And then probably the most surprising one was David was also six yards out, heading it wide. Yeah, from about, from the start of the second half, we started to move it faster, and when you start moving the ball faster with players who probably, you know, are they empty the tank in the first half? You get more space, when you get more space and you've got quality players, you can pick better passes and you create chances. That's what happened. And it all started in 54 minutes. It was, it would have been a hell of a finish, even from there, because his body position was all around to keep him, was coming right at him. You needed to try to take a touch and go around him. It was harder to chip him from there. The second one, Jotter's header, that was an inch perfect cross. That was begging to be buried, you know, and there was a couple of instances as well where they were through. There was a one pass played by grabbing birds to put someone through and there was another pass put where they put, that Saba's died, put someone through. But the first goal, you could tell it was coming. Once we had that, it was literally like a cloud was lifted, you know, because up until that period of play, we were a shell of what we know we're capable of doing. Irrespective of who the manager is, or irrespective of what the new system and tactics is, you start moving it faster, you start playing better and we saw it with our own eyes. And ultimately, when the goal came, it was, you know, Jotter deserved it. I thought he played reasonably well. But it was all about Salah, Salah slipping him in and it was a lovely finish and I was just so relaxed after that, because if it would lock everything up at the back, I was really, at one no, I was just, that's that game. That was it. And in the case of sit back, relax, enjoy the rest of it because we started to move through the gears and, you know, welcome to the Premier League. All right. So before we go to the next goal, let's talk about our sponsor, we've got football prizes, details in the description below. The current offer they do at the moment is 395, there's 499 tickets available and the close date for this is Tuesday the 20th of August and gives you a chance to win a framed list of Lewis Diaz and Dominic Sobelsweiser both signed. So not a bad, not a bad prize. And our two charity sponsors, details across the bottom there are fan supporting food banks in Liverpool and the Lysos Cafe in Dublin. We're still aiming to get 10k between the two of them. So you're a bad cage. So again, if you can give details on the description below, if you can't, please share it amongst friends, family, WhatsApp groups, you know, and let's try and get to the 10k target. But most of all, it just looks the opening day of the season, doesn't it? That is now nine goals in opening days of the season, which is now a new Premier League record. He's had a share, had a lot of part ahead of Wayne Rooney and he has got a goal or assisted every opening game that he's been involved in with Liverpool. Not bad, does he? Yeah. I mean, he's that's a good way to get off the mark because this is what he's going for his eighth season of 20 or more goals for Liverpool. The consistency problem is just outstanding. As somebody had said there in the chat that he's showing James Milner levels of fitness about him, I mean, he might even be pushing that James Milner bar. Like it's unreal, but he just, he looks up for it. Like I think having the whole summer, being back in early for the pre-season has probably really, really helped him to settle into this team. Obviously, he's going to be the focal point of our attack because he's the main man for us. Until he's no longer with us, he is going to be the main man for us going forward. Like his vision for the past, the Jada is fantastic. You can be greedy in that situation, especially when you're such an opening day goal merchant like Salah is, you wouldn't be, you know, it's not beyond the pale to expect mode to go for it, but it shows that he's willing to pass the ball up, somebody who's got the better opportunity, but it was their form. Again, I thought, what was his name, Davies Davis that was marking him the left back for Ipswich. I thought he had a really good game, you know, he said, there was a fair number of times that Mo got the ball on that big switch out there where he was 1v1 and Davies did just enough to allow, you know, help to come and support him there. But like I said, we, we sucked him in, they pushed men forward, pushed men forward. We're playing the ball around from 18 yards out and then bang, that ball goes over the top. And it's with that little bit of extra space in there, it was absolutely lethal, a little bit of a lucky bounce and it falls to him, but I mean, yeah, get in, get in. If you don't have Mo and your fantasy team, I don't know if you know how to play the game properly. First I don't, that's why I don't do it. As just for, let's figure James Miller, he calls the first player in Premier League history to play 23 seasons, that's ridiculous, isn't it? Absolutely insane. Fair play. But then actually, to be honest, after we're at 2-0, there's no way to put it. Look, we'll start taking the piss a little bit, to be honest, and probably the only criticism of the second half would be, should have been more than two, really. Yeah, I mean, there were plenty of instances where it could have been more than two. I mean, that, it was five minutes and 20 seconds between those two goals, and I think we could have, if we were more clinical, continued with that, with that rate of sort. But it was great, it was great to see that kind of quick ball movement right around the box that really incisives movement. And yeah, it was encouraging. I don't know about what you guys think, like that was encouraging after so many match games at the end of last season where we were struggling to break through that final third. It was so encouraging the way that we were slicing through them, and granted it's a certain level of a opponent, but I really enjoyed the passing sequences at the end of like the final third. I mean, it's fair, that level of a problem we were struggling with. So, you know, we've got to also call it as it is, it's nice to have that problem. Although, let's be honest, Kev, he's won a World Cup, he's won the Copper America, but I think McAllister, it's done possibly one of those horrific shots ever seen in my life. You know, both balls in the box, I think, are he's going to hit this honestly, he always put the shot behind him. It was subscaled that. In fairness, I've seen golfers hook it better than that. He was, and the thing is, when the ball stood up for him, I thought, he's going to bang this, you know. Like, you've got, like, Sheffield United, I don't feel like it's going to go 11 at them. Yeah. I'm not sure about him on the left. I know why he's there, because he can't come in on his right strong right foot, but I'm not, I'm not sold on him being there yet. We'll see. But it's like a lot of things. It's going to evolve. The more they play together, the more they understand what the manager wants and the positions and how to move the ball and the patterns of play he wants to play in, the better he will get, because he's just that good. Overall, I think everyone could come off the pitch feeling like, yeah, I could have improved on X, Y and Z, but I'm happy enough with how things went, because that game today was had banana skin written all over it, you know, it was 1230 kickoff, managers first game in charge, away from home, replacing York and Club. Good luck. And, by the way, we're changing the system and we're changing how we want to build up against a promoted side who are on a massive high and Ed Sheerum was there for the first half. Did you know that? Ed Sheerum was there for the first half. I didn't know that. Did you know that Ed Sheerum was there? I didn't see a single shot of him. He had to leave it half time because he's got an Asian scorpion tonight. That sure sponsor is terrible. That sure sponsor is a good heiress. Now, all in all, speaking of AT&T, some of their classic quotes is Ed Sheerum's there, just so you know, occasionally it was in it's which fan. Apart from the Liverpool section, it looked like every fan has turned up in it's which colours, who just thought the whole fans turned up in the home colours, and the final 92 minutes. Well, I was too knolled down, but nobody's leaving. On the first game of the season, I'll be amazed that anyone was leaving, to be honest. So, this is the level of shape we have to deal with. This is also why we've got to pay for that. We're paying for this. And this is also why we don't like 12.30, so we have to listen to Fletch and Genius. That's also the reach of Bletch 12.30. So, right. It's got a bit of fun. Matt, you need to give me three players, the man the match, honorable mention, and could you do better? Man of the match for me, head and shoulder is Ryan Grabberge, I thought he was excellent in there. I had very low expectations for him. It was good to see him play the 90, because I don't know if he managed a 90 last season, or if he did, it was it was a very rare occurrence for him to play the whole 90. So, I quite like that. Honorable mention has to be Mo Salah, I mean, a goal and an assist. And could do better, I would say Alexis McAllister could do better, I mean, just newly back into the team, only the one preseason game under his belt, a long, long summer that he had playing football at a very high level. And it's going to come for him, because he was excellent in the Copa America. I don't know how much you guys got a chance to watch it with the games being on Super Late, but he was excellent for Argentina. And watching those games being like, we own him, like that's amazing. So he's going to come good, but he did not have a very good game. I thought the first half he was pretty much anonymous if all wasn't getting to him at all. He wasn't really putting himself around the pitch, but yeah, grab and bird for me all day. Cool. Ashley, here we go, three. I think it's hard to not give it to Mo. I know we always kind of say like, everyone accepts Mo, but I'm going to give it to him for, you know, breaking his 300th bajillionth record. I think I agree with who could do better with McAllister and thought he kind of looked a little bit like he wasn't quite on board with the system and where he was supposed to be for the next past. Like, I think he'll get there for sure. And then I think Lucy did well. I think he's an honorable mention. I liked his energy, I liked the way that he was taking on his man on the outside. He even had like a few fancy slicks at the end that got fans cheering. So I think I'd go with those three. Catherine, are you all three? For me, Salo's man in the match, not just for the goal and the assist, but though his overall play was really good as well. Honorable mention, I'm torn between two because for the first half, you couldn't have both. Second half Dom Subazla. I know. So the way he, when he dropped deeper, some of his passing was brilliant, but his ability to be able to restrain himself from getting ahead of the ball at times, offering that extra option for a pass, really enjoyed that. And again, could do better, will do better, is Gerard Kwanza. I thought he was fine, first half, he's solid enough, but I think physically, he's going to, you know, the Lee and the laps of this world, he's going to have to physically develop when he's to deal with these kind of players and be more aggressive. But that would come with time. He's literally, I hate it, he's still a growing lad, but you could tell the difference in physicality when Ibu came up and Kwanza isn't, by any stretch, a poor player. There's a lot of things he does really well, but the physical side of the game, he's going to have to improve on. But that will come with time, no doubt in my mind. But overall, delighted with the win, delighted with the clean sheet and the slot errors up and running. Happy days. Cool. I'll go round the match, Giazza, I thought he was probably the most rounded. On rule then, Giazza, I'll go for Mo and could do better, I can't say TNT. Probably Anthony Robbo, he just looked off it, but I don't think he's fully up to speed yet, I'm sure he'll be fine, but he looked probably a little bit off it, I thought he improved second half. Cool. Before we go, two more things. One thing I would just want to say, I don't know if anyone noticed it, in the first half, every single corner, we had a lot of corners in the first half, every single corner was an in-swinger. I was thinking back to the preseason and we all spotted it in preseason where the outswing in corners, we lined up in a certain way, it wasn't until the start of the second after we saw that, I just thought a bit odd for me, understand why you want to put the keeper on the pressure on my head, but if it had two big, strong center halves to deal with anything that was coming in and the ball coming in and around the keeper, we never looked like we threatened them once with anything, in that area, it depends, I thought that's something that's got to improve, the set piece delivery and attacking that piece, because we physically are a big site, contrary to popular belief, we have some good headers of the ball. So that's something definitely to work on, going forward. It was interesting with that, because they tried multiple different corner takers and multiple different routines, so it did look like they were trying new things, but nothing quite came off, I mean we very rarely got an LFC head on the end of any of those corners. I love how cheap it's a reaction, that's brilliant. So, one for us all got together, then we'll let Matt have free rein or what he thinks of the summer so far, because we've all had our say apart from Matt. Just before kickoff, probably like 40 weeks before kickoff, ball choice, Oracle that is the pull, pull, pull, so Joe Gomez was not in the squad as he's assessing his options, which actually felt like an odd time for that news to break, but for it's a break, and let's be honest, Paul George has been briefed by some little bit before that to get out. Does that say to Joe Gomez is pretty much done? I mean, I feel like the Joe Gomez news has sort of been for event to us a little bit, but having that come out, what was it, 45 minutes, 60 minutes before our first game of the season, that felt, I don't know, it could have been handled better. He's not in the squad, he's obviously looking to be a starter, and I can't but grudge him for that, but I do think that, like all of us have said, we need to have Hughes get someone through the door before he departs, because I am not on board with Seth being our fourth choice center back, I'm not, as great and as talented of a youth prospect he is, I don't think that he's the level that we need for our squad. Yeah, Matt, how did you say it, I'll say it now, I know anybody who is considering the first team squad option or first team player leaving Liverpool as I've seen, Richard Hughes brings somebody in through the door who is going to affect the squad this season. Yeah, I just have to say we all failed miserably at the old per-strings game. I mean, I'm thinking back, because that was the last show I did, and it was like, well, that was terrible, nobody was even close, just a bunch of outgoings and no-incomings, but I said on that show that I thought Joe Gomez was maybe our most valuable player last season, just because of how he fit in and covered the gaps when we had injuries all across the backside when we needed him to. I would be sad to see him go, I think he provides a lot of solidity wherever we need him at the back, and we've got two full backs for each side, we don't really have anybody else that can deputize theirs, we don't really have a third choice full back, at least a senior one, I mean Lucas Stevenson went out on loan to Dundee United there the other day, so that was somebody who was deputizing it right back as well too, so you start to get that concern that if you get an injury, all of a sudden you're running a little bit short, you just simply can't, I mean, I agree with Ashley, I have no issues with Seth Annenberg being our fifth-choice center half, but our fourth-choice center half, that's boy, especially because it looks like we're trying to sell him as well too, so at a certain point the numbers just don't add up, I know accountant or director of football quite clearly, but good God you can't just keep selling players and not bring players in, yeah, and can't you have made up this news because you were messaging me and you were quite happy about the whole situation, is that right? I'm fairly fucking disgusted about it to be honest, but we'll see what Richard Hughes has got up his sleeve, I'm not surprised, I mean look he's third-choice full back, fourth-choice center back, Newcastle have already had a bid, well we know the value that Newcastle were looking at pay at 45 million euros, 45 million pounds for him, he's better than that, you know, he's better than what we're giving him at the minute, he's the club's longest-serving player, his availability last season and his flexibility last season were second to none, and the fact that he's 27 and has this much, that much experience, you sat there and you were like, nobody can begrudge him and move, once he wasn't in the match day squad and the journalists who were at the ground knew he didn't travel, they had to deal with it, that's something, you know, you can't sweep that under the carpet to say, yeah, we'll talk about that after, now you have to deal with that there and then, so it's kind of obvious, it's clear in the nose and your face that he's going to have up first, he's going to have options, you've got Bayern Munich who lost a full back and a center back in the last few days, they'll be lovely looking at him because of this, look, Eric Dyer has gone there and done well, Joe Gomez is way better than an Eric Dyer, so he will have options, no doubt, be it in the Premier League or in Europe, and it's up to Hughes and Edwards to make sure they've got all their teas crossed eyes dotted on an incoming player who offers the same flexibility and is an improvement on the quality, because if you're not, then you're going to have major issues because he answers so many questions within a squad, apart from the fact that he's a senior player, you know, let alone the experience side of it, he covers left back, right back, center back, can do a job in mid, proved he could do a job in midfield last season, albeit he's not a starter in that role, he's often, he offers you an awful lot of solutions to questions you've got to come up again through the season. So no, I'm not happy that he's, they're looking to move him on, but I completely totally understand why, and I wouldn't blame him one bit to look to go and start, even if it's, if he wants to go back to London, you know, at the end of the day he came from Charlotte and always Liverpool, absolutely nothing, had two horrendous injuries come back from them and has literally won everything in football. So we'll see what happens with it. I mean, the only thing you'd say is he cannot be allowed to leave this club without adequate replacement in the door, doing a lean, and someone who's going to push us on, you know, otherwise what's the point? Yeah, exactly, exactly. So I agree with that. I mean, Matt, we're going to leave this again in a minute because you haven't had your say in the summer, but yeah, this, I'd still hope for Liverpool to bring two in before the end of the window, because I think we need a minimum two in any way, just, that's not in any way bad shape, but two couldn't hurt. Honest a lot here, one of the things everyone told me, you're going to hate the 1230 kickoff, we hated it in the first half, it's just put a fighter out of it and made it difficult, the first half was not good enough, so pretty, pretty obvious there. Just give some three o'clock scores, Arsenal won up against Wolves, Forrest won up against Wolverth, and Everton are one-nil down at home to Brighton, so, you know, some things have changed. Matt, how we found the summer from the outside looking in, because, you know, you've not had to do shows and not have to live through most of it, I've managed to go for the last week of Zoopa, that d-chat, so I'm quite refreshed over the whole things I've wanted. Yeah, the Zoopa-Mandy thing, I mean, the timing, if it could have been a couple of days earlier, it would have landed right on the one-year anniversary of the Kaisato evening, which was so much fun last year, I was staying up late and thinking we had it in the bag and then waking up to 900 messages that it's somehow fallen through, and I fell asleep very happily thinking that we had got at signing across the board, and then the same sort of thing happened again this year, but just having other shit going on in my life, I didn't have the time or the energy to get all that wrapped up in it, so it was kind of interesting listening to shows and hearing the fume that was coming in from people about it, because it just, I don't know, it didn't really matter, I don't care all that much about signings, I know we need some more players, but I think I've got a lot more blind faith in the players that we have, I always think we're going to win all 38 games, five nills, so, and then tell we lose, it's still on, so the quest for 114 points survives game week one, and we go again, but it's just, it's a numbers thing, and there just, there has to be some bodies brought in, just simply having Tiago and Mathip leaving the squad, those squad spots need to be filled, so I don't know what's going on, yeah, like the incredible 180 that some people seem to have on the management team that was brought in this summer from just elation that we've got the, you know, best in class and Michael Edwards back through the door, and he got the guy that he wanted, you know, in Richard Hughes in to be the director of football, and then all of a sudden, he's terrible and he's going to be fired at, so, just, let's everybody hold fire, the games are back, let's actually watch the team and see what develops because, yeah, we probably could improve our number six, but if the people at the club looked and went, the best person for that is Martin Zouba-Mendi, he doesn't want to leave the associated, the next best person is Ryan Gravenberg, and we bought him last season. Well then, there you go, maybe we made that number six signing that we're all clamoring for, maybe we made it last summer, and people just don't see it yet because Gravenberg didn't really have that breakout season, so maybe this is the season for him to flourish in that spot, it's entirely possible, it might not happen as well too, but just calm down, everybody just calmed down, do like a Garmack says, just hit the little like button, just hit the little like button, what's not to like, the team's back, everything's going good, and there's so much change around the squad just simply because Arnes Lott is instead of Jurgen Klopp, that it's going to be different, and I can understand that people are going to be weirded out by the changes, but just watch the games, look at how we played in a second half, look pretty damn good, people the mouse is asking thoughts on Tijani Reinders from AC Milan, I can't say I watched him from Milan last year, I thought he was quite tidy for the Dutch in the Euros in the summer, is he better than an option that we currently have, I don't know, maybe, maybe not, okay, I think I saw Gauss mention that he quite like to look up, just give you an update, Newcastle are down to 10 men, Fabian Shaw, just head-botted Diaz, hope so, so it's nice of him, that's very new as of him, I know, I know, I know, I know, oh well, I know where they'll do this madness evil, which is also a good thing, so yeah, so right, so rest of the week we'll be back tomorrow with Fatback 4 and then we'll pretty much then, full steam ahead, so if you like what we do, please like, please subscribe, because I remember it's, I was a membership now, Matt, you know, it's so pretty rad, I think it's $3.99 of whatever currency you're in, because I'm pretty sure mine is $3.99 Canadian, which is a steal for anybody that's paying €3.99 in euros or pounds, so everybody else is $3.99 for Matt, it's about a pound, that's what it pretty much converts up, you know, so, yeah, for having a good experience today, so we've got all that, and then, you three, we've got next Sunday, I believe, for the Brenton Day, is that correct? I will be, I might be working, but we'll see, I will be talking about it, but, you know, I'll wait for you from there, cool, right, before we go, anything else you guys want to ask before we go, just one thing, who's that kind of came on today for Ipswich, I thought it was Dominic Calvert, which, well, I think it was Carnus Racing maybe, somebody like that, they brought a sub on it, I thought it was Dominic Calvert, I've been paying enough to do that. Marcus Harness. Yeah, Marcus Harness. It looked like a little mini Dominic Calvert, yeah, I'm looking forward to watching Matt of the day for the first time in Young's, because normally opening day the seasons with a new manager, you just can't watch it. I'm very much like that, I can't watch Matt of the day if we lose or draw, I just can't. The thought of Alan Sheer gloated, it just goes through myself, so I'm going to look forward to watching that tonight. Yeah, well, hopefully, hopefully you can watch Alan Sheer with new customers, hopefully, growing down to 10x, it'll be hilarious, you know, when he'll try to tell you, headbutt's fine, it's not a red card event, but he would not, well, he would know we got away with kickers all in the air. Yeah. So, actually, anything else from you? No, I just hope that the next time that we all chat together, there's some signings through the door. Yeah. Please go. Well, yeah, please go. You know, just make that off all out a bit easier, wouldn't it? Cool. Right. Until then, take care of yourselves, and we'll see you all very, very soon. We'll see you at 45 minutes. Bye. (crowd cheering) [BLANK_AUDIO]
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